A routing framework for energy harvesting wireless nanosensor networks in the Terahertz Band

Wireless Networks

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1169-1183

  Pierobon, Massimiliano ^a   Jornet, Josep Miquel ^b   Akkari, Nadine ^c   Almasri, Suleiman ^c   Akyildiz, Ian F ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Nanonetworks; Nanosensors; Routing; Terahertz Band

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPLEX NETWORKS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NANOSENSORS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK ROUTING; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACHIEVABLE THROUGHPUTS; CLUSTER-BASED ARCHITECTURE; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; NANO-NETWORKS; ROUTING; SINGLE-HOP COMMUNICATIONS; TERAHERTZ BAND; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84903819270     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11276-013-0665-y     Document Type: Article

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